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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
This was so good, I was ready to give it 5 stars, but the Phoebe chapters were…so bad
Solid 4.5. Family saga spanning 1970s to current times. Slow burn that is worth it. A character study of wealthy Jewish American triplets and their parents in New York, and all the reasons they don’t get along.
Julia Whelan narrates the audiobook, always a treat.
Julia Whelan narrates the audiobook, always a treat.
Pretty good, though it could certainly have benefitted from a ruthless editor. It was a lot longer than it needed to be.
This book is SO good and I can't wait to see the Apple TV+ miniseries. I really enjoy the way Jean Korelitz writes, and this story has so many excellent layers and threads and subplots.
I really enjoyed The Plot by this author...but this book is completely different. All character, very little plot. That said, I did enjoy it. We get A LOT of details about each character, over a long stretch of time. I liked how it all came together at the end.
Beautifully written but a chore to read. Nothing in this depressing story compelled me to continue reading.
I love a good dysfunctional family drama and this book did not disappoint. Warning, it is long, too long, and it takes a while to pick up. But don’t give up, because at about 60%, you can’t put it down.
I was initially so excited to get my hands on The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz. The premise seemed right up my alley, but good lord was I so very wrong.
This one is wordy...so very wordy. Unnecessarily so; where 10 words can be used, the author chooses to use 300. Things are overly descriptive and you get so bogged down in minutiae that when it is all said and done, you can't even remember what the hell the author was describing in the first place.
On top of that, the characters are horrible. There is not one likable thing about any of them, and I spent most of the book wanting to slap them. EVERY.LAST.ONE of them. They were like the absolute worst humanity had to offer, and the majority of them were from one family.
I had this one audiobook format, and unfortunately, it just wasn't that good. Don't get me wrong because the narrator's voice was pleasing and overall nice to listen to. The issue is that there were a number of characters in this book, and the narrator did the voices for them all the same. It was virtually impossible to differentiate between characters so quite often I had no idea that the character narrating the chapter had changed, and would have to restart the chapter after realizing it.
All in all, The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz was a good idea, but a real hard slog to get through. I honestly should have listed it as DNF, but I hung on to see if it would get better. It didn't!
This one is wordy...so very wordy. Unnecessarily so; where 10 words can be used, the author chooses to use 300. Things are overly descriptive and you get so bogged down in minutiae that when it is all said and done, you can't even remember what the hell the author was describing in the first place.
On top of that, the characters are horrible. There is not one likable thing about any of them, and I spent most of the book wanting to slap them. EVERY.LAST.ONE of them. They were like the absolute worst humanity had to offer, and the majority of them were from one family.
I had this one audiobook format, and unfortunately, it just wasn't that good. Don't get me wrong because the narrator's voice was pleasing and overall nice to listen to. The issue is that there were a number of characters in this book, and the narrator did the voices for them all the same. It was virtually impossible to differentiate between characters so quite often I had no idea that the character narrating the chapter had changed, and would have to restart the chapter after realizing it.
All in all, The Latecomer: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz was a good idea, but a real hard slog to get through. I honestly should have listed it as DNF, but I hung on to see if it would get better. It didn't!
A few painful sections that felt over-written and some painful relationships, many of which I related to, but I loved the way this all came together in the end.